Landforms
Name 2 landforms related to water.
What are deltas and islands?
Learning about different economic systems
What is Physical Geography?
Seven major and several minor plates within the Earth that collide and result in landform creation or changes.
What are tectonic forces?
Landforms are physical features located on the surface of the earth, helping to shape our world.
What is false?
Name the 4 spheres of the Earth.
What are Geosphere, Atmosphere, Biosphere, Hydrosphere?
What is a desert?
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What is human geography?
The process of landforms becoming covered in ice sheets or glaciers, that when moved cause changes in landforms.
What is glaciation?
What is true?
Found at the mouth of rivers where they meet the ocean, usually created in a triangular piece of land.
What is a delta?
erosion of mountains or magma swells up below the surface of the earth
What is a plateau?
Learning about why people migrate from one country from another
The process of eroded soil and rock being transported by wind, water, ice or gravity and deposited in their new location creating new landforms or making changes to existing landforms.
What is deposition?
Continental drift theory was formed by Albert Wegener?
What is false?
Similar to a mountain, that erupts and allows molten lava to roll out
What is a volcano?
Vegetation growing in a low space, usually at the bottom of hills or mountains.
What is a valley?
The study of the physical features of the world
What is physical geography?
When bodies of water are filled with rock and cement, matching the heights of new and old land areas.
What is land reclamation?
Mining and land reclamation projects are both human factors that have changed landforms.
The theory that at one time stated that all continents were one large land mass which separated to become the continents we know today.
What is continental drift?
Formed when large pieces of the earth collide and forces the earth upwards.
What is a mountain?
Learning about different cultures, and learning about different climate zones
What is both human and physical geography?
Name the natural factors in changes to landforms
The Appalachian mountains end in Nova Scotia, and similar mountain ranges can be found in places in Northern Europe.
What is false?
A natural process that breaks down rock, soil, and minerals into smaller parts when they come into contact with the Earth's atmosphere.
What is weathering?